Best Manners Poems

I don’t know about you but I think it right
That kids should eat at the table, most every night.
Sit down with mum, sit down with dad
For these are the best memories you’ll ever have.

There will come a time and it creeps up fast,
When past days...

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When dinning out in a restaurant there are things you should not do!
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~Good Manners~
(Rhyme Verse) 


It is good to have manners 
And I'am refering to good ones 
It's great to say 'Thank you' 
When you get something from someone 

Good manners you can always 
Cultivate them in your talk 
You can learn them all 
In your life...

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They made mammon somethng measurable, mighty, & magnificent,
everywhere that labor, exchange, & entertainment exist monuments
to money, large and small,

the genesis was excess manufacture 
such as grain, gold, textiles & ceramics,
animals & people,
purveyors were born like corn on the cobb,
like mist in morning,
buearruacracies of religion &...

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What came of you, oh rouging bashful sun
Your fiery face belies your youthful enterprise
Morning dew illuminates by incandesce spark
Was it brash action of the taunting wind 
that made you color so?
Your blushing face now tints the evening sky....

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My long-sufferin' Mother tried to teach me the rudiments of social graces,
So as not to make a fool of myself at fancy affairs and such other places.
But even so, at the school prom I splattered sauce on the tux I had rented!
So much fer impressing...

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If manners maketh man - and woman too

then why do no manners men - women fit 

any boot or shoe? If you expect better you 

are "inconsiderite, a bloody stuped fool as 

you oppused to the freedom for us do what 

the hell I or...

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Politeness, respect, courtesy
Is something that's so hard to see
When no one takes the time to learn
Theres so much that we can earn
If people would just agree
Its not always about ME

Pay it forward, chain of love
Should fit us all just like a glove
To think of others...

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Dear Miss Monkey Manners: I’m a Spider Monkey in need of your help, 
Recently someone yanked my tail and I cried out with a yelp. 
It may seem like a little thing to cry when someone pulls your tail, 
Unless, of course, it’s mating season...

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You can't tell me that you didn't see this coming.

Dear Miss Monkey Manners, can you spare a minute? 
I know that you help apes in trouble and I am knee deep in it. 
I have a girl I’ll call Mary Beth, she’s the banana of...

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Tiger Manners

Mom makes tea in the cabin
Leaves baby on the porch to sleep
Under the canopy of shade 
There in the jungle creatures have their ways
As mom returns to feed the baby
Finds it missing from the cradle
Babies flesh is warm and oh so tender
Tigers need to...

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Oh love of mine what can you do,
When day finds loved one soon to die,
Poor taste the joke, self-serving tears,
What gain is there when you deny?

And what exactly would you want
If suddenly the roles could switch,
Is sadness traction that you seek?
Do other’s tears your death...

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“No thank you” 
I spoke in answering whether I wanted my till receipt ,

No ! wait ‘
but there is a ( thank you for your service) but no  I don’t need the receipt.

I slow my breath briefly ‘look down then lift my head after...

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It is here that children are given instructions on what it means to be human. We make men at it, we make women.
Joy Harjo her poem Perhaps the World Ends Here

Supper Table

There was a time when the supper
table was a gathering place.
A time when children...

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Merlin the cranky cat
sat around getting fat.
Wanting to be heard
he mewed and purred. 

He yowled and howled
and even growled
all with the same result.
He felt it quite the insult.

He snarled and hissed
What had he missed?
He tried a mewl
and lost his cool.

Short of a caterwaul
what should he...

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